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The Eberleins

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The following is transcribed from two pages (titled “The Eberlein”) in the album created by Frederick William Kellerman (1900-1980):

Of the Eberlein wing of the relationship — Mother’s side — we know relatively little.The great distance which separated Missouri and Arkansas from Shawano, Wisconsin, kept us as youngsters from meeting most of the Eberleins. Grandpa died some years before Mother married, and Grandma died some 10 years later. This I well recall, since Mother took Ed, Billie (then a year old), and me to St. Louis by Mississipi steamboat (because of a landslide over the railway tracks), left Ed and me at 2106 Stansburg St, and visited her dying mother for six weeks. (I need not suggest why Dad had singled out Ed and myself for this extended sojourn!)

Grandpa and Grandma Eberlein were also of sturdy German stock and migrated by wagon train from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin when mother was a girl of 10. They apparently thrived, for they owned a hotel, which their large brood helped to run. Of the 14 children there were, I think , only 4 boys, of whom we came to know only Fred (my godfather) and Mike. Of our aunts, we came to know Aunt Ida, who married Dad’s brother “Kuns,” because this branch of the Kellermann tribe lived for over 10 years at Troy, Illinois, not far from St. Louis, and Aunt Kate, who spent some winters in our house in Vero Beach during the 1920s. Two of Mother’s sisters became school teachers and their photos appear elsewhere in this album: Aunt Emma, who married a missionary and removed to Australia, and Aunt Ida. I lived for a year with Aunt Ida’s family in St. Louis while I taught school (at Bethlehem Church), where (Dean) Fritz was then pastor. The snapshot of Aunt Ida and Grandpa Kellermann was taken around 1918, I think. (See page 11.)

Mike and Fred were both lawyers and partners in a number of enterprises, including an ice factory, a dairy, and a silver fox farm. How successful they were can only be conjectured from the fact that before the infamous jump in income tax rate they paid over $25,000 in taxes.

Fred visited Mother and Dad in 1900 at 2106 Stansbury St, St. Louis to act as my Godfather; in West Ely, Mis., in 1909 on his way to Arizona; and again during the thirties at Vero Beach. I recall Dad telling me that Uncle Fred has suggested starting a cannery in Vero Beach.

The photo album is in the possession of Gayle Hirsh, nee Kellermann, who graciously provided the images.

M. G. Eberlein to Emma (Eberlein) Kriewaldt, 26 September 1940

18 Thursday Oct 2012

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September 26, 1940

Mrs. Emma Kriewaldt
Yurgo, South Australia
Australia

Dear Sister:

Fred just came in the office bringing a letter which you wrote to Dolly and Gus, accompanied with the request that they send it on to the other brothers and sisters. Lora is here and the three of us have read the letter aloud. You now have the family setting in my office. We are all here now while I am dictating this letter to you.

We received your photograph and we all have reached the conclusion that you are still a pretty good looking old girl for 68 years of age. Even though the wrinkles do not show, Emma, everything else is there.

I am enclosing in this letter one of my pictures which I used in my campaign.

I was defeated for the nomination upon the Republican ticket. There were seven candidates and Mr. Fred Clausen of Horicon, a millionaire manufacturer of farm implement, received the nomination, He will now have to run against LaFollette in the November election. I have grave doubts whether he can be elected. However that may be, I am definitely out and probably will retire from politics.

I took the position that we have no stake in the European War, and that we should mind our own business, prepare for defense and accept Washington’s advice seriously. You remember he said in his farewell address:

“Do not enter into any foreign entanglements. Cultivate the peace and friendship of the entire world.”

My entire campaign was predicated upon this theme and the fact that I lost out indicates that even Wisconsin is again war-minded as it was in 1917.

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I have not changed my ideas and will still do everything I can to fight our entry in this war. It may be that my teachers when I was a boy, told me too much history. Whether that is so or not, I have no reason to change my mind with reference to Great Britain end her Empire. If we need the protection of Great Britain’s fleet, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves.

In politics it looks to me as if Roosevelt will be re-elected. He is handing out billions of othor people’s money in the form of Relief and W.P.A. jobs. He is literally buying votes by employing millions in governmental service.  Just this morning e W.P.A. Worker came in, who said he was only getting $39.OO a month. He is down at the court house doing some sort of book work which I know he can’t do. He is about as illiterate as any man I ever met in my life. A new scheme has now been evolved whereby this same man will receive $19.00 extra per month in food stamps. That will give him $58.00 a month. I am sure he does not work over 40 hours in a month at a little clerical job as I have stated. Contrast that with men on our farms. Some of them receive only $35.00 a month and the best $50.00. Of course, this man will vote for Roosevelt as well as the other millions who are similarly situated.

We still have much unemployment but the defense program and the war orders are beginning to make profits and more money is finding its way into pay envelopes. The laboring men seem to like the present feast and I really believe this nation is ready to go into war, regardless of the sacrifice in men and property.

We have a debt of Forty-Five billion dollars and this Congress has appropriated Twenty Billion Dollars more. The people are demoralized. Nobody wants to work. The farmers are leaving their farms and applying for old age pensions. I don’t know how much longer this can go on but no nation can live without working.

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I notice that Eddie is in England. Our radio gives us probably more accurate reports than you get but I am not going into that because this letter may be censored and the whole letter may be confiscated. I hope that Eddie does not suffer any injury, and that he will come home to you.

Now, with reference to ourselves. Fred, Alvina and Frederick are upon the farm near the cemetery. They are operating the farm about the same as when you were here, except that we have gone in the fox business quite extensively and raise several hundred foxes each year. Just how this business will be affected it is hard to say. Without question there will be more free money, but our exportations may be cut off, so that we will have to use all of our silver foxes in America, and I am somewhat concerned about the price of foxes this fall. The farm is being operated about as it was before. We still have Guernsey cattle, but we have no milk route. We have quit the ginseng business. The price got altogether too low. The lumber for the sheds increased 400% and the price of ginseng decreased 75%.

Since you were here we have developed a large farm in Langlade. This farm has about 2000 acres but has 500 acres cleared. We specialize here in Hereford steers and potatoes. Just now we are digging and have a fairly good crop. The price is not good. That applies also to grain here. We had a fine summer so for as rains are concerned, but our farmers had much trouble in harvesting their grain because of wet weather. Add to that the fact that the price is very low and we have a very big surplus from other years, and that everything that we buy has gone up a good deal, and you can readily see there is nothing in farming.

Charley is working for the County and living in the same house he lived in when you were here. His youngest daughter, Edna, is married and has two children. She was here this summer. She married a Lutheran School Teacher and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. ,

Dolly and Gust were here this summer.  Gust has aged a good deal and has slowed up some more, if that were possible. Dolly is just as chic as ever , and you would hardly think

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that she is 70 years old. She still would pass for a sixteen year old. Her hair is not gray and she still seems to have all the fire of youth.

Now for our own family. Michael, our oldest son, is 26 years old today, He got his B.A, at Lawrence University in 1936 and then attended the University of Wisconsin Law school where he finished in 1959. Since then he has practiced law with me in the office. Our firm, as you will notice, is Eberlein & Eberlein.

Margaret is working for the State of Wisconsin at Taycheedah in the capacity of a private secretary. She finished the University of Wisconsin in 1950, taught school at Sheboygan in the high school for 5 years and then went East and took a Secretarial course and has now worked for the State three years. She is unmarried and I had hoped that she might find some worthy young man and settle down. Her single blessedness seems to bother me more than it does her mother.

William is now attending Harvard and he hopes to get his PhD, majoring in Mathematics, next June. He got his B.A. at Harvard in 1938. He then came to Wisconsin and got his Master’s Degree in 1939. He then went back to Harvard last year and the present year will be his last. He is a very good student and has had a scholarship continuously at Harvard. He seems to be gifted in Mathematics and hopes to get a teaching job in some University,

Fritz is really our most gifted son of all. He is 21, He is indolent and a little foxy, a good deal like his father was when he was young. He has no vices and doesn’t drink. Unlike his father he is mentally lazy and tries to live by his wits. He finished St. Norbert’s College at DePere last June and is now at Wisconsin University Law School. He is exceptionally talented and I think he will find himself in law. Of all the boys, he alone could take my place here in every field of endeavor in which I am engaged, if he would just settle down and study. I feel confident now that he will find himself and get down to business. .

The youngest is Walter, who is 19. He is our pride and joy. Wally was the Valedictorian of his class, containing about 185 students. He went to Harvard as a Freshman last year.

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He got straight A’s and is one of 16 of the upper 16 in a class of 957 Freshman, He got a mid-semester scholarship at Harvnrd and another one this year, indicating that they appreciate him.

Wally has just about everything by way of character, intelligence, personality end industry. He will make a great man some day. We are trying to bend him into the physician’s path, hoping that we can make a doctor out of him. So far he has shown no inclination.

We live at Shawano where we lived when Martin stayed with us. We just finished painting the house for the second time since we live there and things really look pretty fine around the place. With the boys all gone, except Michael, it is kind of quiet around the place. We have a maid and so Mother can take things somewhat easier.

We had our first killing frost last night and we are very busy getting in our corn for silage and getting out our crops.

Fred suggested that I tell you about Reka, to make this letter complete. She still lives upon the farm near Embarass. She occupies a part of the farm house and Eddie and his wife occupy the other. I think Reka is having quite a time because Eddie’s wife seems to be pretty hard-boiled. Reka is getting very old and apparently is still in good health. Things look pretty tough around there. The house hasn’t been painted since you last saw it and I doubt if any repairs have been made, so it is just a shack. Her daughter, Adelaide, teaches school and is still unmarried and lives with Reka. Apparently they get along very well. I don’t know what Reka would do without Adelaide. The rest of her family have flown to all corners of the United States. Dwight is in California. Katherine married a fine young farmer living in Langlade County. Arthur is in Milwaukee. You will remember him as her youngest son. I think he is some foreman on a W.P.A. job and is classified pretty near a “Red” from every report I get. I don’t know where the rest are, because they shift around. Not any of them have done very well so far as I can see. Fred is running a garage in Embarass and has just about

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lost it, because of the inherited Breed indolence.

Uncle Fred is 65 years of age and still seems to trot along as fast as ever. He is apparently enjoying pretty good health, as is Alvina.

I have had more or less sick spells for the last three years but am also hanging on. When one gets to the age of 60 you must expect ailments.

I don’t know if you know that our office is in the old Odd Fellow’s Building. You will remember the building on the corner directly across the road and south from Yung’s Furniture Store. It is kitty corner from Upham’s store. I just completed some interior work, making the offices very fine. I have a tenant in the north end of my building operating a furnishing store. The Journal Printing Office is in the south end of our building. I occupy what used to be the hall of the old Odd Fellov’s Building on the second floor and Doctor Stubenvoll occupies the north part which used to be the kitchen and sitting room of the Qdd Fellows. I built a barber shop immediately east of the end of this building about 12 years ago. It is of brick and that is rented.

Now, this is a very long letter, Emma, but I must say that we now have over 5000 inhabitants and the town has changed a good deal since you left. Practically every store is a chain store. Even Uphams had to go out of business. Montgomery Wards are occupying the store building. We have miles of paved streets and, of course, side walks and sewers. The paper mill is still as it was when you were here. Of course the river and the pond are here as is the lake. The court house is exactly as it was. Fred says to tell you that there are now over 500 summer cottages around Shawano Lake. Fred is Chairman of the Town of Wescott, that being the town in which the lake is located.

We have about 26 lawyers here now, all trying to make a living. So far I have been very busy but can notice a falling off because of the time I took out campaigning.

Of course, this will come back when I get started again.

Under separate cover I am sending you several copies of the

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Shawano County Journal and some campaign material. I am also enclosing a vote that I got in Shawano County, showing the regard in which I am held here. I will put that in the package containing the papers and campaign material and, therefore, will not enclose it in this letter.

When you write us, please write us a long letter telling us about your children and Martin and his family and his work

We all send our love.

[Signed MGE]

Poor mother’s cancer is growing again …

12 Friday Oct 2012

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[Lobethal,] Mar. 12, 1906

… I have had such bad news from home. Poor mother’s cancer is growing again and it is only a matter of time until death relieves her of her sufferings. I do hope she will not have to suffer so awfully. I hope and pray God will give her a peaceful end. Fritz writes he is going to get her to write a few lines to me and I hope she will do it.

Lobethal, Apr. 5, 1906.

Dear Diary:- It is a long time since I wrote to you last. I can’t write Sunday evenings any more because I go to evening services now and at other times I forget it. I must make it a point to write after service. I hardly can tell you all that happened since last I wrote. I suppose you know that mother is rapidly getting worse and that I can expect the new of her death at any time. Fritz promised to have her write a few lines soon but she has not written yet. …

Lobethal, Nov. 25, 1906

“Dear Diary: — It is several weeks since I last wrote to you. A great many things have transpired since then. For one thing, mother has died. This was a sad piece of news for me and yet I felt so relieved to know that she was out of all pain and free from suffering. I also felt glad on account of my brothers who had the great task of nursing her. It was too much for poor Fred. He wrote his health had failed him and that the doctors had told him he had consumption. I felt very bad and at once sent a cablegram telling him to cover over and visit us. The cable cost me over a pound, yet I consider the money well spent. If only he gets well again, I shall be so thankful. Mother left each of us children $300 just about the sum I had expected. I am not to get it for a long time yet, I suppose.”

Source: Emma Eberlein Kriewaldt’s diary, transcribed by Brenz and Ernie Kriewaldt in 1995. Extracts from entries for March 12, April 5, and November 25, 1906

Mike Eberlein Scores Joint Success As a Lawyer and Farmer

06 Saturday Oct 2012

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Candidate For Attorney General Directs Profitable Farm Project
By BYRON F. HEUL

SHAWANO, Wis.—Besides being worked like a farm horse by his law practice here M. G. (Mike) Eberlein, candidate for attorney general of Wisconsin in the September primaries, has turned his horse sense and business experience back to two farms composing 1,800 acres,—and in this time of strife and struggle to eke out a farm living, is making a profit every day the farms are in operation.

For 28 years Mike Eberlein and his brother Fred have been partners in the legal and farming businesses, but during the last five years have built and developed a paradise farm of profit from timber land which the brothers had formerly logged.

Beautiful Setting
This magnificent farm is located 33 miles from Shawano and just north of the beautiful Menominee Indian reservation. After winding in and out, through tall timber and over sharp hilltops which characterize rough land, the tourist or motorist suddenly arrives at a two mile stretch of level, fertile farm land where the Langlade farm of the Eberleins is situated upon more than a mile of the bank of the beautiful Wolf river where rainbow trout may be caught in abundance.

Of the tillable land, there are 300 acres of Colby silt loam soil without ten feet of [?] in a mile and a half distance. Wet, did you say? Not at all,—for this depth of rich, heavy loam is underlayed with gravel which acts as a perfect drainage system to the productive soil. These 300 perfect acres were selected while timber by Mike Eberlein as a farm, for he could foresee a beautiful farm in its raw stages. So enthusiastic was Mr. Eberlein to develop this splendid piece of land that he spent all vacation time and week ends at Langlade using dynamite on the huge pine stumps that originally supported the virgin timber. Now Mike Eberlein grows alfalfa, barley, oats, hogs, potatoes, and steers on this 500 acre tract of which 300 are under cultivation. One hundred and fifteen steers which Mr. Eberlein purchased personally on the St. Paul market last spring, are now grazing in the attorney’s deer park.

Establishes Deer Park
Deer Park? Certainly Mike and Fred Eberlein have a deer park. It isn’t a fad, however, for these deer must pay a profit if the project is to be carried on. “Each operation on our farm pays a profit, and I know just what profit each operation pays,” continued Mike, as he led reporters on a dogtrot about the place. Just between you and me, visitors had better practice walking if they expect to keep up with Mike Eberlein when visiting that Langlade home. The deer park was started last year with 15 deer bought from the Wisconsin Conservation Commission and this year eleven orphan nanies [sic] are being raised on the Shawano Farm for transplanting on the 800 acre deer park which Borders the Langlade farm on the north. While waiting for the deer to multiply, the Eberleins use the deer park for a steer pasture where white clover and other pasture grasses grow abundantly. State Highway 55 divides the farm and the deer park, allowing tourists to view the new enterprise and one of the finest farms in all Wisconsin on the same trip. When deer get plentiful, hotels in Chicago will undoubtedly pay 80 cents and up per pound for the venison.

Woodsmen Know Mike
Surrounding the Langlade farm are settlers who Mike Eberlein say are his people. He knows all the sturdy, rough men of that cut-over country, and he vouches that there isn’t a bad man in the whole lot. They all call him Mike up there north of the Indian Reservation. And why do they know Mike? Until this year, up to the age of 50, Mike held down first sack on the Langlade baseball team that is always a strong team in its league. Few people in Shawano know that Mike played baseball regularly every Sunday, for he gave the matter little publicity,—but up North they all root for Mike at first. Mike is one of the pioneers up there, and that is where his heart goes the minute he has finished a hard week at Blackstone.

Ill Health Causes Reverse
Now we drift back to the Shawano home farm of Mike and Fred Eberlein, and where the original farm partnership began. Here, Fred Eberlein started some 20 years ago, after he was forced to dissolve law partnership with Mike on account of ill health. The two boys just had to have some kind of a partnership. Here at Shawano, the Eberleins do special farming, housing some 7OO Silver Black Foxes, milking a herd of highly bred Guernsey purebreds, and watching twelve acres of ginseng grow into profit The boys believe In specializing in order to keep away from the stiff competition which the average run of large scale production makes. Here 300 acres of land are cultivated. Guernsey heifers are being raised and transported to the northern farm where a dairy herd will be started in the huge Langlade farm dairy barn as soon as the  heifers become dairy cow age. The home herd numbers 100 at the present time.

Show Big Records
Digging into the records and pedigrees of the purebred we find that one of the Eberlein cows, bred and raised on the farm, holds a record of over 1,200 pounds of butter. The herd has been continually under dairy improvement and official testing work and in all events has stood high in competition. To demonstrate the Eberlein sense of business farming, this year 20 acres of Cobbler potatoes and 50 acres of Triumph potatoes were planted early and will soon be harvested for the early market. Potatoes being high priced last spring, a large crop was expected, thus the Eberleins are insuring themselves against low potato prices next fall. The potatoes are all raised on the Langlade farm.

Save on Building Costs
Realizing the high cost of lumber, the Eberlein Brothers purchased a small tract of lumber land just south of the big Langlade farm from which to build buildings, get fence posts, obtain lumber for ginseng beds, and get material for fox farm equipment. It was from a small cedar swamp on this tract that 3,OS2 cedar posts 14 feet long were obtained to build the deer fence around the 800 acre deer park. The tourist traveling highway 55 will know the Eberlein Deer Park by the tall fence posts that enclose it. Besides being interested in farming and legal practice, Mike Eberlein is also interested in the retail and wholesale oil business, a tourists park, a newspaper, and other successful financial enterprises. He is a member of the Shawano school board and is active in civic affairs of the county.

Fred Eberlein is mainly identified with the fox business, being secretary of the Wisconsin Fox Breeders’ association and taking very active interest in that organization. Fred, too, is a hard headed business man who believes that proper business methods on the farm, where specialized farming is used, will show a yearly profit.

Some Views of Eberlein: Shawano Farm
[Four photographs, not reproduced here]
Golden-milk producing guernseys are housed in these up-to-date and practical barns (above) on the Shawano farm of Eberlein and Eberlein. To the rear of these barns are found 700 silver black foxes in an acreage of fox pens and houses.
Below is seen the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Eberlein and their five children.
Four boys, Mike, William, Ferdinand [sic] and Walter all attend Shawano schools, while Marge was graduated from the University of Wisconsin college of letters and science last June.

Above is a land-breaking scene on the Langlade farm of the Eberleins. The entire farm was developed from cut-over land which the men originally logged. Three men with tractors farm the 300 acres of cultivated land, exclusive of potato-digging time. There are 115 steers being fattened on the grass and crops of the land this season.
Below is Fred Eberlein, brother and partner to M. ]. Eberlein, candidate for,
attorney general in the September primaries. Fred is the active manager on the. farm where 100 guernseys, 700 silver foxes, and 12 acres of ginseng are raised.

Source: The Wisconsin State Journal, Sunday, 10 August 1930

Won Two Prizes At Big Fox Show

05 Friday Oct 2012

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EBERLEINS WILL HAVE THE WINNERS ON EXHIBIT THIS WEEK SATURDAY

Fred. G. Eberlein took six foxes to the National Silver Fox show held at Muskegan, Michigan, last week. There were 308 entries in the show, and Mr. Eberlein came back with two of the prizes.

He won first prize, the blue ribbon, for silver adult male, pale and he won fifth place in the medium silver adult male class, The medium silver is considered a higher value animal than is the pale silver, so his fifth prize is as much to be proud of, as is the blue ribbon that he won.

There have been so many requests from people who want to see these animals, asking to go out to the farm, that Mr. Eberlein has arranged to show the two winning animals in the window of the Farmers Hardware Company all day this Saturday. The presence of strangers annoys the foxes, and so this public exhibiting plan was adopted.

The Eberleins have been in the fox business for only two years, and the winning of these two prizes is a notable accomplishment, In a few years, the fox industry will have grown to big proportions, but right now, the Eberleins can be considered as being among the pioneers of the business.

The Shawano foxes were shipped to and from Muskegan by express and were personally attended both ways by Mr. Eberlein. They attracted considerable attention at the station along the route.

Source: Unidentified newspaper clipping, December 1922, in the Frederic C. Eberlein genealogical folder.

Descendant report: Frederick Augustus Eberlein

02 Tuesday Oct 2012

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FREDERICK AUGUSTUS EBERLEIN was born on 19 March 1875 in Herman, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 11 May 1956 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He married (1) KATHARINE E. KING, daughter of Eastman King and Zella Youmans on 08 November 1900 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. She was born on 12 July 1877 in Belle Plaine, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. She died on 06 March 1903 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He married (2) ALWINA DUECKER, daughter of Peter Duecker and Alwina Sabeline on 20 April 1910 in Racine, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. She was born on 22 February 1885 in New Holstein, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA. She died on 26 November 1968 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA.

Frederick Augustus Eberlein and Katharine E. King had the following child:

i.    FREDERICK EASTMAN EBERLEIN was born on 05 August 1901 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 12 May 1973 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He married Frances Lillian Jorgens, daughter of Orin Jorgens and Mabel Rasmussen on 07 February 1948 in Scandinavia, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA. She was born on 31 May 1912 in Scandinavia, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA. She died on 18 April 1998 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA.

Rites Scheduled Monday for Local Lawyer, Farmer

02 Tuesday Oct 2012

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Frederick Augustus Eberlein, pioneer Shawano county fur farmer, died at Shawano at 2:15 o’clock Friday afternoon after a illness of one and one-half years. He was 81.

Mr. Eberlein was born in the town of Herman in Shawano county on March 19, 1875, the son of Frederick and Catherine Eberlein. He lived in the Shawano area all his life and attended schools in Shawano and received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin.

IN NOVEMBER 1900, he was married to the former Kitty King who passed away in 1903. He was married to Alwina Duecker on April 20, 1910, and they spent eight winters in Arizona for reasons of Mr. Eberlein’s health.

Active in civic affairs,  Mr. Eberlein was District Attorney in Shawano county for four years and a member of the Masonic lodge and the Rotary club. A lawyer by profession, he was the senior member of the Eberlein and Eberlein law firm  from 1904 to 1917 and he also served on the Shawano County Board for several years. He practiced with his brother, the late Michael G. Eberlein, who was circuit judge at the time of his death.

Ill health forced him to discontinue the practice of law when doctors advised him to be out of doors. He then (1917) gave up the legal profession for fur farming and cattle raising. He also was interested in potato farming.

He was very active in the Wisconsin Fur Breeders Association, serving as its secretary for many years. He was an optimist by nature and did not allow his physical handicaps to seriously curb him in his work or dim his hopeful outlook on life.

By a strange coincidence, Frederick A. Eberlein was succeeded in the office of district attorney by a nephew 50 years to the date that the elder Eberlein took the office himself.  The nephew is the present district attorney, Frederic C. Eberlein. F. A. Eberlein took over the office January 5. 1903, and “Fritz” assumed similar duties Jan. 5, 1953.

Survivors include his wife and a son by his first marriage, Frederic Eastman Eberlein, a fur farmer at Shawano R. 1. Also surviving are two grandchildren and a brother, Charles Eberlein of Shawano.

FUNERAL SERVICES will be held 2 p.m. Monday at the Schweers Funeral Home in Shawano with the Rev. W. E. Williamson officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery in Shawano. Masonic rites will be held at graveside.

Friends may call at the Schweers Funeral Home from this evening until the time of the service.

Members of Lodge 170 F and A.M. are asked to meet at the Masonic Temple at 1:30 p.m. Monday to prepare for participation in the rites for Mr. Eberlein.

Unidentified clipping, in the Eberlein folder at the Shawano Heritage Center.